Re: FYI: vte 0.56.2 + No more ftp tarballs

[Debarshi Ray <dray redhat com>]

Hey Egmont,

Thanks for the heads up!

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:59 AM Egmont Koblinger <egmont gmail com> wrote:
> - VTE 0.56.2 was released ahead of schedule in order to fix a crash
> (RH #1701590). Could you please update the Rawhide (F30) package? (F29
> with VTE 0.54.x is unaffected.)
>
> - VTE git master (0.57 series) switched to the meson build system and
> dropped autotools. Since there are no longer any autogenerated files
> to distribute, we will no longer manually create tarballs and upload
> them to the static ftp/http download area. Instead, you should check
> out particular tags from git, or download the autogenerated tarballs
> from gitlab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/tags.
> (gnome-terminal is likely to follow soon, I won't send a separate FYI,
> you'll notice it when it happens.)

I guess I could live with downloading the autogenerated GitLab
tarballs for the purposes of building Fedora packages. I wonder if
this has a bearing on how the GNOME release team builds things to
prepare the upstream GNOME releases. I have CC'ed them.

Cheers,
Rishi